Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 25
By to-morrow morning all this must be as smooth as the palm of my hand; rye must be sown and grow so high that a jackdaw might be hidden in it.
Who acts: this · What happens: be, sow, grow, hide · To what, where: rye, jackdaw
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 to | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 morning | compound |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 smooth | obl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 this | det:predet |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 smooth | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 smooth | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 smooth | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 smooth | advmod |
| 11 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 palm | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palm | det |
| 14 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 smooth | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 palm | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 sown | punct |
| 19 | rye | rye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sown | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 sown | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sown | aux:pass |
| 22 | sown | sow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 smooth | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grow | cc |
| 24 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sown | conj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 high | advmod |
| 26 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 grow | xcomp |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 hidden | mark |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 jackdaw | det |
| 29 | jackdaw | jackdaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 hidden | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 hidden | aux:pass |
| 32 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 high | advcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 hidden | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 smooth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | this | morning | as the palm of my hand; smooth property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sow | must · passive | rye | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | present | high property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hide | might · passive | a jackdaw | rye | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in it=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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